Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
For the purpose of grant of samman pension under the scheme, a freedom fighter is:- (a) A person who had suffered a minimum imprisonment of six months in the mainland jails before Independence. However, ex.-INA personnel will be eligible for pension if the imprisonment/detention suffered by them was outside India. (b) The minimum period of actual imprisonment for eligibility of pension has been reduced to three months, in case of women and SC/ST freedom fighters from 1-8-1980. Explanation 1.-- Detention under the orders of the competent authority will be considered as imprisonment. 2. Period of normal remission upto one month will be treated as part of actual imprisonment. 3. In the case of a trial ending in conviction, under trial period will be counted towards actual imprisonment suffered. 4. Broken period of imprisonment will be totalled up for computing the qualifying period. (b) A person who remained underground for more than six months provided he was:- 1. a proclaimed offender; or 2. one on whom an award for arrest/head was announced; or 3. one for whose detention order was issued but not served. (c) A person interned in his home or externed from his district provided the period of interment/externment was six months or more. (d) A person whose property was confiscated or attached and sold due to participation in the freedom struggle. (e) A person who became permanently incapacitated during firing or lathi charge. (f) A person who lost his job (Central or State Government) and thus means of livelihood for participation in national movement. A Martyr is a person who died or who has killed in action or in detention or was awarded capital punishment while participation in a National Movement for emancipation of India. It will include an ex-INA or ex-Military person who died fighting the British.